Shot Merge Help

I'm new to Fusion, and am coming over from After Effects, and I need a little help trying to figure out how to properly merge two shots together into one.



The above video is the example of what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to take the first two shots and merge them together into the third. The idea is that I captured a fisherman casting off his line, and then recorded a boat in the background afterwards and decided that the shot of the fisherman casting his line would look better if I had the boat in the background. So I followed a lot of the methods that I would in After Effects but an having trouble.

I've done a decent enough job. However, my shot merge has stabilization issues that I find cause the boat to bounce. The thing I can't figure out is how to properly stabilize the boat shot first and then put it into the stabilized fisherman shot. I think it's the way I'm doing my nodes. Any advice would be very welcome.

Screenshot of Node Structure

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Thank you for your help!

It's difficult to see your node setup in the attached screenshot.

Basically what you want to do is stabilize both shots with a tracker and then merge the stabilized boat on top of the fisherman. Then use a transform tool to destabilize the fisherman shot by connecting everything you've stabilized in the original tracker (position/size/angle) and then check the invert button.

Hope this helps you on your way.

It's difficult to see your node setup in the attached screenshot.

Basically what you want to do is stabilize both shots with a tracker and then merge the stabilized boat on top of the fisherman. Then use a transform tool to destabilize the fisherman shot by connecting everything you've stabilized in the original tracker (position/size/angle) and then check the invert button.

Hope this helps you on your way.

Thank you for your advice. I started the project from scratch and did new trackers. I managed to get it to work. What's more is that since I used only a snippet of the shot in this marketing video I didn't need to track as much of it nor did I have to rotoscope the fishing pole as many frames. Wish there was a Rotobrush tool like in After Effects because that would save me tons of time.

https://vimeo.com/176242520/23928aef68

That's the finished video Opening 3D text was done in After Effects and Cinema4D Lite because After Effects still has a 3D camera tracker that I can use to insert 3D objects into the scene with camera tracked data. That's something I found lacking in Fusion's native features.